On the computation offloading at ad hoc cloudlet: architecture and service modes

IEEE Communications MagazinePublished 1 June 2015

Min Chen, Yixue Hao, Yong Li, Chin‐Feng Lai, Di Wu

DOI10.1109/mcom.2015.7120041

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This paper categorizes computation offloading into three modes: remote cloud service mode, connected ad hoc cloudletService mode, and opportunistic ad hocCloudlet service mode and conducts a detailed analytic study for the proposed three modes of computation offload at ad hoccloudlet.

Abstract

As mobile devices are equipped with more memory and computational capability, a novel peer-to-peer communication model for mobile cloud computing is proposed to interconnect nearby mobile devices through various short range radio communication technologies to form mobile cloudlets, where every mobile device works as either a computational service provider or a client of a service requester. Though this kind of computation offloading benefits compute-intensive applications, the corresponding service models and analytics tools are remaining open issues. In this paper we categorize computation offloading into three modes: remote cloud service mode, connected ad hoc cloudlet service mode, and opportunistic ad hoc cloudlet service mode. We also conduct a detailed analytic study for the proposed three modes of computation offloading at ad hoc cloudlet.

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